By De GT Scene

Queen's College Guyana Scholar, Fidel Captain, has released his first book titled "Six-Step Relational Database Design".

He says that the book is dedicated to structuring and simplifying the database design process, outlining a simple but reliable six-step process for accurately modelling user data, leading to a sturdy and reliable relational database.

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Op-ed by Sir Ronald Sanders

Imagine if a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Head of Government were to say boldly the following truths however inconvenient they may be to other Heads of Governments:

-->CARICOM’s mode of marking time, at an historical moment of overwhelmingly awesome challenges for our region, which compellingly demands a more profound integration, is mistaken.

-->The times demand that we move resolutely beyond minimalism (in the integration process) which inexorably leads to regression; “pausing” is but a euphemism for standing still which, in a dynamic world, is sliding backward. That is the evidence before us in CARICOM since its leaders, including me, decided at a special conclave in Guyana in 2011 to put the “single economy” process on “pause”.

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Op-ed by Sir Ronald Sanders

Oil wells off the coast of South America’s only English-speaking country, Guyana, are now being drilled in earnest.  Already Guyana’s economy is benefitting from millions of dollars being pumped by two companies into their operations.  Should the drilling release the expected millions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, the country’s economy will boom.

However, a booming economy must ultimately produce top jobs for locals from what will become its highest-paying industry.  If it fails to spread the benefits of high earnings across the entire community, the industries will become as much a cross as a crutch.

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Op-ed by Sir Ronald Sanders

General elections in St Lucia and Guyana on November 28 have raised serious questions about the financing of campaigns and the unfair use of state resources by governing political parties to gain an advantage over their opponents.

In St Lucia, it is alleged that a significant portion of the United Workers Party (UWP) campaign funds came from Taiwan.  The UWP was the ruling party at the time of the elections and the then leader of the Opposition and leader of the St Lucia Labour Party (SLP), Kenny Anthony, had engaged in a public row with the Taiwanese Ambassador over his blatant interference in the electoral politics of the island.

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By Gordon Moseley for Capitol News™

Several unclassified US Embassy cables about Guyana and issues here, made their way on to the Wikileaks website.

The issues revealed about Guyana thus far covered everything from the political landscape to how the government responded to the assassination of former Minister of Government, Satydeow Sawh, and the growing drug problem.

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By Enrico Woolford for Capitol News™

The US agents following the drug trade out of Guyana know the method of operation so well that it does not take them long to pull in more couriers.

Based on their knowledge of what happens in Guyana, the feds pulled in and charged, Careem Chase Walsh, for importing over 10 pounds of cocaine in a suitcase.

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